torpedo the ark

Snail at the Birdbath    (SA/2023)     I sent the above photo of a garden snail crawing along the lip of the birdbath to M. and she said: ...

A favourite photo of my mother (taken in 1947, aged 21)     "Does being able to live without someone you loved  mean you loved her less...

(SA/2023)   "It is right for a gull to fly - freedom is the very nature of its being ..." [1]   I.    The other day, walking in ...

Portrait of Heinich Heine  by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1831)   I.    Readers may recall that I recently had a run-in with the Google censor...

Sex Pistols: 'Submission' (1977) [1]   I.    According to Rotten's recollection, it was Malcolm who suggested the band should wr...

Jamie Reid: No Feelings (1977) [1] tate.org.uk.     When Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten informs us that he has no feelings how are we to interp...

"I'm not a discharge / I'm not a loss in protein  I'm not a throbbing squirm"     I.    The debate around the issue ...

David Bowie looking perfect in the video for  'Life on Mars' (dir. Mick Rock, 1973)     David Bowie's arty glam rock ballad ...

Is There Life on Mars? (SA/2023)     The question of whether there is - or at some point has been - life on Mars is one that continues to ex...

  Who are those guys?   Prison mugshot of Robert LeRoy Parker (1894) Publicity photo of Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy (1969)   On this day, i...